As the casket of tenor Luciano Pavarotti emerged from the Modena cathedral yesterday to applause and the strains of “Nessun Dorma,” the Puccini aria that was his signature piece, Italy's aerobatics squadron flew over, leaving smoke trails of red, white and green, the colors of the Italian flag.

SACRAMENTO – This time, the frequent visitor fondly dubbed Cinnamon or Baby Bear crawled painfully instead of rambling through a favorite foraging route, one she had followed since she was a cub growing up near some South Lake Tahoe homes nestled in the forest.

It was all over except the shouting. The $198.1 million settlement of childhood sexual abuse lawsuits against the San Diego Catholic diocese was just a nod or two away when some of the dozens of attorneys for the victims began to argue among themselves over what their clients should receive.

WASHINGTON – The FBI cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone call and e-mail patterns of the associates of Americans under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records.